Swamy wants them to wear Indianness up their sleeve

Fri, Jun 24, 2016, 11:50 AM

You can always depend on Dr Subramaniam Swamy, BJP leader, to say the odd thing. In a twitter message, he advised Indian ministers visiting abroad not to wear full suit and tie because in that attire they would look like waiters in hotels. Instead they should wear the traditional Indian dress.

Without mentioning anyone in particular, Dr Swamy tweeted: BJP should direct our ministers to wear traditional Indian clothes while abroad. In coat and tie they look like waiters.

Dr Swamy, who had been attacking economists saying they were not Indians in the first place, would have been happy if the RBI Governor, Dr Raghuram Rajan, and the adviser to Indian Prime Minsiter, Dr Arvind Subramanian, had worn Indian attire of kurta, pyjama and black coat.

Small mercy, he did not tell them to wear Iyengar or Iyer attire.

It appears Dr Swamy wants the top bureaucrats, especially economists, to wear Indianness up their sleeve.